This seems to be becoming an annual event for me, doing the guy’s head for the local playgroup that sees the fellow deposited in the local shop where he’s required to raise funds for the little kiddie-winkles activities, not that it bothers me at all. On the contrary it’s a good re-introduction to using paper pulp in sculpture following the summer when I’m more inclined to sit out with a lump of wood and a set of knives … not something I’m so inclined to do during the autumn and winter months when the notion of straying far from the stove fills my heart with dread!
Probably my biggest fear in doing the guy is finishing it, a poor paint job can make even the best sculpture look like some pre-school effort … and this is far from being ’the best sculpture’ making the paint job all the more important! So in the interests of preserving it in some fashion prior to painting I like to get a few work in progress pictures for posterity’s sake.
I’ll do a further post once he’s finished off in all his glory, and maybe get a couple of pics of him in-situ in the shop, before the final incineration on bonfire night
Tags: craft, handmade, head, mache, mash, painting, paper, papier, sculpture
